Dear Parents/Guardians,
Many thanks for your help and support with getting all of our pupils and school staff back to school safely. I am happy to tell you that since we started back to school, we have managed to keep all the ‘bubbles’ from interacting at entry and exit times as well as at the staggered break-times. This has required a considerable increased workload and a lot of planning from all of the school staff.
It is very important that our school is a safe and healthy place for all in the school community, and your patience and co-operation in the mornings and afternoons has helped greatly in making this possible. Like you, we want to do everything possible to avoid a closedown of the school due to Covid-19!
From next Monday 14th September we are hoping to tighten up the times of entry to and exit from school. Please note that the classes will still be entering and exiting on a staggered basis, as recommended by the DES, to ensure that the class ‘bubbles’ do not mix.
If this tighter schedule is to be successful it will mean that every child must be present at the school at the assigned time in the morning and must be collected at the assigned time in the evening. If we find that the new schedule is not working we may have to revert to the longer intervals between entrances/exits.
Classes Entering at 9.15
Mr Moran’s Class will come into the schoolyard at 9:15. They will use Gate 1. They will be met in the school yard by their Class Teacher who will lead them to their classroom.
At 2.40 Mr Moran’s pupils will exit the school property by the Gate 1. (Please note the later time)
Ms Flynn’s/Ms Fitzgerald’s Class will come into the schoolyard at 9:15. They will use Gate 2. They will be met in the school yard by their Class Teacher who will lead them to their classroom.
Senior Infants will leave school at 1.55. They will exit by Gate 1.
First Class will leave school at 2.40 and will use Gate 2 (Please note the earlier time).
Classes Entering at 9.20
Ms Healy’s Class will come into the schoolyard at 9:20. (Please note the earlier time) They will use Gate 1. They will be met in the schoolyard by their Class Teacher and led to their classroom.
Ms Healy’s Class will exit at 2.45 via Gate 1
Ms Tierney’s Class will come into the schoolyard at 9:20. (Please note the earlier time). They will use the Gate 2. They will be met in the schoolyard by their Class Teacher and led to their classroom.
Ms Tierney’s Class will exit at 2.45 using Gate 2.
Classes Entering at 9:25
Ms Redfern’s Class (Junior Infants) will enter the schoolyard at 9.25. They will use Gate 2. They will be met in the schoolyard by their Class Teacher and led to their classroom.
Junior Infants will continue to leave school at 12 pm for the next week via Gate 2.
Ms Dunne’s Class will come into the schoolyard at 9.25. (Please note the earlier time). They will use Gate 1. They will be met in the schoolyard by their Class Teacher and led to their classroom.
Ms Dunne’s Class will exit the school at 2.50 via Gate 1.
